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THE 

ORIGIN and ORGANIZATION 

of the 

SENIORS’ TOURNAMENT 


By Its Founder 

HORACE L. HOTCHKISS 


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The 

Origin and Organization 

of the 

Seniors’ Tournament 


By Its Bounder 

HORACE L. HOTCHKISS 

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The American and Canadian Senior Teams who competed at Apawamis in September, 1921 



The Origin and Organization of the 

Seniors’ Tournament 

N the year 1904 golf clubs were not numerous 
in the United States. There were a num- 
ber of important clubs in the Metropolitan 
District, and also in the neighborhood ot 
some of the larger cities, like Boston, Philadelphia, 
Chicago, and Pittsburgh, but the “Royal and Ancient 
Game of Golf” had not, at that time, attracted from 
baseball, tennis, and football that interest and en- 
thusiasm in the United States which was so soon 
to establish golf as the most absorbing and interesting 
of outdoor games for both young and old, and for 
either sex. To quote from a classic writer: 

“Golf is probably the most scientific of all out- 
door games, requiring as much accuracy of stroke 
as tennis and far more judgment than cricket or 
baseball, the fascination which makes it the 
game of all games is, that the mental as well as the 
physical makeup of the player enters into it; no 
man excelling at it, no matter how mechanically 
correct he may play, unless his personal charac- 
teristics are a part of every stroke he makes. 

“No other game requires such a variety of phys- 
ical and mental adjustments, and no other game 
gives so complete a measure of the whole man.” 

By the best records now obtainable, it is now 
generally conceded that there were between live and 
six thousand golfers who played the game in the 
years from 1900 to 1904. 

Mr. John Reid, sometimes called the father of 
golf in America, introduced the game at Yonkers, 

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Horace L. Hotchkiss, Horace L. Hotchkiss, Jr., Horace L. Hotchkiss, third, and Horace L. Hotchkiss, fourth. The last named will be 

eligible for membership in the Seniors’ Association in 1975. 



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N. Y. This was in the years 1884 to 1886. Later, 
in 1888, Mr. Reid, with a few enthusiastic associates, 
organized the St. Andrews Golf Club. In those early 
days Mr. Theodore A. Havemeyer, of New York 
and Newport, and Mr. George Wright, of Boston, 
were much interested in golf, and did much to en- 
courage and incite a larger interest in the game. 
There were many others who aided in creating en- 
thusiasm in golf, but as this is to be only a history of 
the inception and organization of the Seniors’ Tourna- 
ment, I will not dwell further on those early days of 
golf in America, except to mention the interest in the 
game always shown by the late Alexander Milne, of 
Scarsdale, N. Y. As a boy in Scotland, he played 
golf on the Montrose links, and brought with him 
to this country his old love for the game, and he 
could be seen at the Annual Seniors’ Tournaments 
up to the eighty-third year of his life, when he won a 
prize in Class D of that schedule. Mr. Milne passed 
away in the summer of 1915, and his loss as a comrade 
and golfer was felt by a large circle of the devotees 
of the game. 

As I said before, it is not my intention to write 
the history of golf in America, nor to dwell upon the 
many advantages derived from playing the game, 
for much could be said regarding the healthful exercise, 
diversion for the mind, discipline to one’s tempera- 
ment, the sense of honor continuallv invoked bv a 
strict adherence to the rules of the game, and with 
all this the many sensations of delight and enjoyment 
from the realization, now and then, of a perfect stroke. 
All this, with the social features of foursomes and 
friendly matches, lures one with renewed interest 
to the golf links. 

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Mr. W. R. Baker, 

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and Mr. Frank 
States Seniors’ 


Presbrey, Presidents of the Canadian Seniors’ 
Golf Associations, respectively. 





The Origin of the Seniors’ Tournament 


Regarding the origin and organization of the 
Seniors’ Tournament, it is a simple story, and it can 
be said of it that, like Topsy in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 
it “growed up.” 

The original idea of such a tournament started 
from a discussion at the “nineteenth hole” at the 
Apawamis Club, Rye, N. Y., in the winter of 1904. 

Some radical views were being expressed in regard 
to the future of golf in the United States — that the 
game would be played by young men, and that it 
would only be on rare occasions when men of fifty to 
sixty years of age would be seen on golf links. As 
I was at that time over sixty years of age and also 
very much interested in golf, I challenged this view 
of the future of golf in America and declared that a 
field of golfers could be arranged in the near future, 
sufficient in number to make up a tournament on the 
Apawamis links, and all the players would be fifty- 
five years of age and over. The problem of arranging 
for a tournament seemed difficult, as the general im- 
pression existed that the moderate skill acquired at 
that time by the “old men,” as they were called, 
would discourage many who might wish to enter the 
competition, by the possibility that it might prove a 
spectacular exhibition of old age and poor golf. 

Later on, in the same winter, after a conference 
with my colleagues on the Board of the Apawamis 
Club, my views as to a tournament were favored and 
I was encouraged to undertake, with full authority, 
and as the only member of the committee in charge, 
the work of trying to create a field of golfers made up 
of those who were eligible for the coming event, to 
be held in September or October, 1905. 

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Leviek 


Geo. S. Lyon, captain of Canada’s Senior team 
and many times amateur champion of Canada. 

Having passed most of my life as a boy and man 
in Wall Street, I was particularly favored by a knowl- 
edge of those of my associates who were golf players 
and were eligible for the competition. I placed 
myself in correspondence with them, and many others, 
and invited them to take part in a golfing competition 
to be arranged on the Apawamis links. I received 
many interesting and amusing replies, and was early 

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Levick 

Martin J. Condon of Memphis, winner, and pres- 
ent Senior golf champion of America. 


satisfied that a field of fifty or more golfers could be 
depended upon to make up the first tournament. 

At the very beginning of my efforts I found the 
term “Old Men’s Tournament” quite distasteful to 
some of those who were to play in the coming events, 
as this title was being continually used when talking 
about the tournament. I discouraged the use of this 

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title and christened the coming event the “Seniors’ 
Tournament,” which distinguished title now identifies 
this annual at Apawamis as one of the important 
golfing fixtures of the United States. 

In arranging for a tournament composed of a field 
of golfers who were to be drawn from professional, 
commercial, and industrial life, men busy in their 
various vocations, it was found that it would be im- 
possible to plan for a schedule based upon “match 
play.” It was therefore decided to have a competition 
of one day’s medal play of thirty-six holes, based on 
handicaps, with four prizes to be awarded to winners as 


follows : 

Best Gross 36 Holes 

Second Best Gross 36 Holes 

Best Net 36 Holes 

Second Best Net 36 Holes 


Invitations were sent out for the first tournament 
for October 12, 1905, and the hospitality of the 
Apawamis Club was extended to all who entered, 
while a bountiful luncheon provided by the club was 
included as a part of the programme. 

Many of the Seniors who responded to this initial 
invitation declared that this was their first appearance 
in public in a golfing competition. The spirit of 
good-fellowship was quickly established between all 
competitors. 

Arrangements were made in advance for pairs, 
and old rivalries were renewed in these individual 
matches, with the understanding that each player’s 
score was to be returned as against the whole field. 

The correspondence and records of the tournaments 
of 1905 and 1906 were destroyed when the Apawamis 

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Club house was burned in 1907. I therefore find 
myself deprived of the reference to correspondence 
which contained valued autograph letters from many 
of the Seniors, letters which were enthusiastically 
favorable, often with a witty reference to the quality 
of golf and the limitations of age. From the best 
records now at my command, covering those first 
two years, 1905 and 1906, I can recall some of the 
names of those who played in the tournaments of 
those years and reported their scores. Among them 
were: G. E. Armstrong, Fox Hills; C. W. Baldwin, 
Essex County; Alexander Barrie, Apawamis; E. T. 
Beddall, Larchmont; Col. W. C. Beecher, Nassau 
County; Henry W. Brown, Philadelphia Cricket; 
Samuel W. Brown, Apawamis; John Butler, Pelham; 
Edmund C. Converse, Eairfield County; Alfred Craven, 
St. Andrews; U. D. Eddy, Apawamis; James D. Foot, 
Apawamis; Eugene Frayer, Englewood; H. E. French, 
Brooklawn; Robert Goodbody, Essex County; Zalmon 
Goodsell, Brooklawn; Gov. John W. Griggs, New 
Jersey; George M. Gunn, New Haven; Col. John B. 
Holland, Dyker Meadow; Horace L. Hotchkiss, Apawa- 
mis; Dr. William Jarvie, Nassau County; G. H. N. 
Johnson, Brooklawn; Thomas E. Kirby, Bedford; 
Luther Loomis, Apawamis; J. H. Knapp, Wee Burn; 
Samuel Macdonald, Boston; W. H. Male, Bedford; 
Dr. E. A. Marrow, Storm King; J. Rogers Maxwell, 
Nassau County; James McCutcheon, Fairfield County; 
John B. McDonald, Apawamis; E. N. Norton, Apawa- 
mis; T. J. Palmer, Hackensack; A. D. Partridge, 
Bedford; John Reid, St. Andrews; R. H. Robertson, 
Shinnecock Hills; Judge Horace Russell, Shinnecock 
Hills; George P. Sheldon, Fairfield County; E. P. 
Slevin, Essex County; A. E. Southerland, Englewood; 

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Judge Henry Stoddard, New Haven; N. S. Smith, 
Apawamis; R. H. Thomas, Morris County; George 
Wright, Boston. 

A notable feature of these tournaments was the 
fact that the schedule of play was arranged for thirty- 
six holes. This was a real test of endurance, for it 
had been figured out that, over the Apawamis links, 
two rounds represented practically a distance of about 
nine miles when playing the game. 

The winners of the first tournament (1905) were: 

Best Gross Score, 36 Holes — James D. Foot, 
Apawamis, 179- 

Best Net Score, 36 Holes — Judge Horace Russell, 
Garden City, 197-20-177. 

One of the interesting incidents of this first tourna- 
ment was the spectacular drive from the eighth tee 
when Judge Horace Russell, who was playing with 
R. H. Robertson, saw the ball land on the green, and 
roll up near the cup, thus enabling him to make the 
hole in two. 

The winners of the 1906 tournament were: 

Best Gross Score, 36 Holes — James D. Foot, 
Apawamis, 184. 

Best Net Score, 36 Holes — Zalmon Goodsell, 
Brooklawn, 202-36-166. 

After the first and second tournaments it became 
fashionable among golfers to wish to be fifty-five, 
and thus the augmented numbers annually participat- 
ing in this event have continued to prove the truth of 
this early adopted motto, “Once a Senior Always a 
Senior, Sometimes Venerable but Never Aged.” 

The winners in 1907 were: Dr. Carl E. Martin of 
Fairfield, who turned in a best gross score, 36 holes, 

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of 177 and displaced James D. Foot as the Senior 
champion; and Edmund C. Converse of Greenwich, 
who had the best net score of 196-32-164. 

The Seniors who entered for the 1908 tournament 
presented to the Apawamis Club a beautiful testi- 
monial for hospitality extended. This, an artistic 
bronze tablet, imbedded in granite on the western 
side of the club house, overlooking the first tee, will 
ever be a symbol of loyalty to the game of golf and a 
valued treasure for the Club to cherish. 

In reviewing these past years and going back to 
the early days of the inception of this tournament, 
I now fully realize that my labor of love would have 
been fruitless had I not received the loyal and hearty 
support of all those who were invited and who were 
willing to join and make up a field of golfers brave 
enough to come out in the open and acknowledge 
that they were fifty-five years of age. 

In 1908, James D. Foot of Apawamis again came 
to the front, tying with Dr. Carl E. Martin of Fairfield 
for a best gross score of 166 and defeating him in the 
play-off. James D. Foot was once more gross prize 
winner in 1909 with a score of 169. Frank A. Wright 
of Baltusrol bettered this in 1910 with a score of 162, 
but Mr. Foot came back in 1911 with a low gross score 
of 160, which stands as the record score for all the 
Seniors’ Tournaments that so far have been held. 
The year 1912 saw a new champion in James A. 
Tyng of Baltusrol, whose card of 176 was the lowest 
turned in. In 1913, Walter Fairbanks of Colorado 
and Herman Wendell of St. Davids tied with scores of 
166, the former winning on the play-off. Another 
tie resulted in 1914, Frank A. Wright of Baltusrol. 

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(167) defeating Charles A. Spofford of Garden City 
(167) on the play-off for first prize. James A. Tyng 
reappeared as the champion in 1915 with a score of 
176, and 1916 brought C. G. Waldo of Brooklawn to 
the front with a score of 167. 

During these same years the best net 36 hole 
winners were: 1909, Robert Collier, Dunwoodie, 187- 
20-167, who tied with George P. Sheldon of Green- 
wich and defeated him on the play-off; 1910, E. J. 
Noble of Garden City, 184-40-144, who tied with 
George E. Armstrong of Eox Hills and defeated him 
on the play-off; 1911, J. M. Hodson of Ardsley, 189- 
26-163; X 9 I2 > William S. Gummere of Baltusrol, 
i 93 - 36 -i 57 ; 1913, Wilson P. Foss of Deal, 186-40-146; 
1914, H. E. French of Brooklawn, 167-26-141; 1915, 
Martin Carey of Apawamis, 177-28-149; 1916, Col. 
A. S. Worthington of Chevy Chase, 209-60-149. 

While these tournaments were being held and 
these champions were being developed, the chief 
features of note at Apawamis were the steadily growing 
popularity of the Seniors’ Tournaments and the 
constantly increasing numbers of enthusiastic Seniors 
who were taking part in them. 

By 1915 it became evident that the number of the 
participants was already too great for a two-day 
tournament — as had been held for some years — and 
the Apawamis Club, through its special committee 
in charge of the Seniors’ Tournament, announced 
that this event would be extended to four days, one- 
half of the entries to play on the first two days, and 
one-half on the last two days. This plan relieved the 
former congestion and proved so satisfactory that it 
has been continued to the present time. 


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In addition to dividing the field, the splitting up of 
the players into classes on the basis of age, and special 
feature prizes, greatly extended the prize list, while 
the provision that a winner could take but a single 
prize made the selection of the official prize list a 
formidable affair, and one that could not be completed 
coincident with the close of the tournament. 

The entries to the Seniors’ Tournament for 1915 
exceeded 300 and for 1916 they were about 330. 
It was felt by some of the leading Seniors who were 
members of the Apawamis Club that the time had 
come for the Seniors to organize as an association, to 
take over the work of running their own tournament, 
and to relieve the Apawamis Club of this labor, which 
had grown far beyond what was contemplated when 
these tournaments were started. 

This thought, which was suggested by Walter 
Brown, proved an instantly popular one, and through 
the initiative of Frank Presbrey, then Chairman of the 
Seniors’ Tournament Committee of the Apawamis 
Club, an informal meeting of the more prominent 
and active Seniors was called and held, at which it was 
decided to organize such an association, to select a 
proposed board of governors, to prepare a proposed 
constitution and by-laws, and to call a general meeting 
for permanent organization at Delmonico’s, New 
York, January 29, 1917, a dinner for those attending 
to be a part of the programme. 

Invitations to join the proposed Seniors’ Golf 
Association were mailed to all who had participated 
in previous tournaments, and the responses thereto 
were very gratifying. About one hundred and fifty 
attended the meeting and dinner at Delmonico’s and 

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the preliminary work of the voluntary board was 
ratified unanimously. The Seniors’ Golf Association 
became an actuality. 

At this meeting, the first regular one of the new 
association, officers for 1917-18 were elected as follows: 

President — Darwin P. Kingsley, New York. 

First Vice-President — Justice Mahlon Pitney, Washington, D. C. 

Second Vice-President — Judge Morgan J. O’Brien, New York. 

Secretary-Treasurer — Walter Brown, New York. 

All those attending the dinner signed the roll as 

charter members, and before the time limit had been 

✓ 

reached within which entrants could become charter 
members, there were three hundred and eighty signa- 
tures. Applications for membership in the associa- 
tion began coming in to the Secretary thereafter so 
rapidly that it was soon seen that the contemplated 
membership limit of four hundred must be exceeded 
or a large number of applicants be left upon the wait- 
ing list. In consideration of this matter a special 
meeting of the Association was called and held at the 
office of the President, on July 9, 1917, at which it 
was voted to increase the membership limit to five 
hundred. 

Despite this increase the number of waiting ap- 
plicants, and new applications immediately there- 
after received, brought the membership up to the new 
limit before the date set for the 1917 tournament, 
and a new waiting list was started. 

The chief prize winners at the 1917 tournament 
were W. E. Truesdell of Fox Hills, with a low gross 
for 36 holes of 172, and T. P. Anderson of Siwanoy, 
who had the best net 36 holes of 193-44-149. 

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John H. Duffy of Knollwood furnished the prin- 
cipal amusing incident at this tournament. Bunkered 
at the twelfth hole, and after four frantic strokes in 
th e sand without result, Mr. Duffy — it is said — with a 
silent prayer for guidance and direction, and his eyes 
shut to keep out the sand, made one more mighty 
swipe and was rewarded by having his ball land on the 
green, roll up to the cup and drop in. 

At the first annual meeting of the new association, 
which was held at the Apawamis Club on Wednesday 
evening, September 19, 1917, the board of officers 
chosen at the organization meeting were elected for 
another year. Mr. Frank Presbrey, however, who 
had been a verv active and efficient chairman of the 
tournament committee for three years, stated that he 
would be unable to continue in that position and asked 
to be relieved. He was succeeded by Frederick J. 
Wessels, who had already served with Mr. Presbrey 
on this committee. 

At the first .tournament of the Seniors as an as- 
sociation there were altogether three hundred and 
twenty-six entries representing one hundred and six 
different clubs. One hundred and seventy-nine players 
participated in the first two days, and one hundred 
and forty-seven in the second. 

At this annual meeting also Mr. Walter Brown, the 
Secretary-Treasurer, urged that the association had 
now' growm to a size where these two offices should be 
separated in order not to impose excessive work upon 
one official. Amendments covering this change were 
offered and referred to a later meeting for action. 
This meeting w'as held at the office of the president 
on November 13, 1917, and the amendments were 

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adopted. Following this special meeting, Mr. Brown 
was continued as Treasurer, and Mr. W. H. Hale, 
who had ably assisted the tournament committee for 
several years, was appointed Secretary for the associa- 
tion at a salary to be fixed by the Board of Governors 
annually. 

In the spring of 1918 an event took place that 
has since had an important bearing and a far-reaching 
effect upon senior golf. This was the formation at 
Montreal of the Canadian Seniors’ Golf Association, 
the organization of which was aided and encouraged 
by the United States Seniors. 

In recognition of this aid the following resolution 
was passed at the organization meeting of the Canadian 
association, held at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, 
Montreal, Saturday, May 18, 1918: 

“ RESOLl ED, That the thanks of the Canadian 
Seniors’ Golf Association are due and are hereby 
extended to Mr. Horace L. Hotchkiss, the Founder 
and Honorary President of the United States 
Seniors’ Golf Association, Mr. Frank Presbrey and 
Mr. S. Charles Welsh of the Apawamis Club, for 
their great interest in and assistance given in the 
formation of this association, and for the useful 
information which they have so readily and cour- 
teously placed at our disposal. And be it further 
resolved that copies of this resolution be forwarded 
to Mr. Hotchkiss, Mr. Presbrey, and Mr. Welsh.” 

The real significance of the forming of a Canadian 
Association upon Senior golf in this country was brought 
out at the second annual meeting of the United States 
Association held at the Apawamis Club on September 
11, 1918, where, under the head of new business, 
President Kingsley announced that His Excellency, 

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the Duke of Devonshire, Governor General of Canada, 
had presented to the Canadian Seniors’ Golf Associa- 
tion a splendid trophy to be played for annually at 
an international match between the Seniors’ Associa- 
tions of Canada and the United States. The President 
also presented an invitation from the Canadian Seniors’ 
Golf Association to the United States Seniors’ Golf 
Association to participate in such a contest, naming 
Montreal, Canada, September 1 8, 1918, as the place 
and date. This information was received with en- 
thusiasm and it was immediately voted that the in- 
vitation be accepted, that a team be sent to represent 
the Seniors’ Golf Association, and that Mr. Frank 
Presbrey be chosen captain of the team with power 
to select the members and make all arrangements for 
the match. This was the origin of the international 
matches that have since proved such interesting 
features of Senior golf. 

The officers elected at the 1918 annual meeting 
were: 

President — Darwin P. Kingsley, New York. 

1 st Vice-President — Justice Mahlon Pitney, Washington, D. C. 

2nd Vice-President — Judge Morgan J. O’Brien, New York. 

Treasurer — Joseph A. Flynn, New York. 

Secretary — W. FL Hale, New York. 

The winner of the tournament and champion for 1918 
was again W. E. Truesdell of Fox Hills, with a low 
gross score, 36 holes, of 172. J. W. Sothern of Siwanoy 
had the best low net score, 36 holes, of 193- 44-149. 

The first international golf match between the 
Seniors of Canada and the United States took place 
on the links of the Royal Montreal Golf Club, Montreal, 
Canada, on September 18, 1918. The United States 

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team was largely made up of volunteers who were 
able to be away from their business for two weeks in 
succession — the Seniors’ Tournament at Apawamis 
having taken place the week before, on September 
io, ii, 12, and 13. The American Association was 
able to get together a strong team and the match was 
closely contested throughout, the Canadians winning 
by four points, the score being 19 for the American 
team and 23 for the Canadian. The Nassau system 
was used in scoring — one point for the first nine holes, 
one point for the second nine holes, and one point 
for the match. 

After the match the United States representatives 
were entertained at luncheon bv the Canadian Seniors, 
at which occasion numerous congratulatory speeches 
were made and Lord Richard Nevill, representing the 
Governor General, presented His Excellency's cup 
to George S. Lyon, captain of the winning team. 
The cup, which is a large and beautiful example of the 
silversmith’s art, bears the following inscription: 

PRESENTED BY 

His Excellency, The Duke of Devonshire, K. G., 

to THE 

SENIORS’ GOLF ASSOCIATIONS 
OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, 

To Be Played For Annually 

AS AN 

INTERNATIONAL TROPHY 

The next event of importance in Senior golfing 
annals w'as the midseason dinner of the Seniors' Golf 
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April 24, 1919, which took the form of a testimonial 
to myself as Founder of the Senior Tournaments 
and Honorary President of the Association, the 
occasion being in celebration of my seventy-seventh 
birthday. 

About one hundred and thirty were present, in- 
cluding a delegation from the Canadian Seniors com- 
prising W. R. Baker, C. V. O., President of the Canadian 
Seniors’ Golf Association; Hon. Wallace Nesbitt, 
K. C. ; Lieut. -Col. J. B. Miller of Toronto; Ralph H. 
Reville, Hon. Secretary of the Canadian Seniors’ 
Golf Association; Frank A. Rolph, President of 
Canadian Amateur Golf Association; and C. H. 
Peters, St. John, N. B., who came as invited guests 
of the L T nited States Seniors. Mr. William H. Conroy, 
President of the Apawamis Club, also was present as 
the guest of the Association. 

As the proceedings at this dinner were largely 
laudatory of myself, and as my natural modesty 
might lead me to say less about them than an impartial 
chronicler should, I shall take the liberty of quoting 
from the Secretary’s minutes such portions of his 
records as will give an outline of the principal hap- 
penings. 

“President Kingsley made an eloquent address, 
felicitating the guest of honor, which was liberally 
applauded. At the close of his remarks Mr. Kingsley 
proposed a toast to Mr. Hotchkiss, which was 
drunk standing. 

“In response Mr. Hotchkiss spoke very feelingly 
at considerable length, in the course of which he 
reviewed the early history of the Seniors’ Tourna- 
ments, thanked his assembled friends for their 
expressions of esteem, and complimented the 

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Canadian Seniors’ Golf Association and their dele- 
gates present for their enterprise as well as for their 
affiliation with and friendship for the Seniors’ Golf 
Association of the United States. 

“Following the speeches of Mr. Kingsley and 
Mr. Hotchkiss, the President introduced Mr. W. R. 

Baker, President of the Canadian Seniors’ Golf 
Association. 

“At the close of his interesting and forceful 
address, Mr. Baker turned his attention to Mr. 
Hotchkiss, handed to that surprised gentleman a 
handsome silver humidor, and told him that he had 
been deputized by the Canadian Seniors to pre- 
sent it to him as a token of the esteem which that 
association had for the founder of Senior golf 
tournaments, for the interest he had shown in their 
own organization, and because of their great personal 
regard for him.” 

The inscription upon this humidor — which, need- 
less to say, I shall always cherish as one of my choicest 
treasures — reads as follows: 

“To Horace L. Hotchkiss, Esq., from the 
Governors of the Canadian Seniors’ Golf Associa- 
tion, on his 77th birthday, as a slight token of 
their appreciation of his assistance and encourage- 
ment in the formation of the Canadian Association. 

April 24, 1919.” 

This dinner was also made the occasion for the 
presentation of an elaborately engrossed testimonial 
and a superb silver service to Mr. Frank Presbrey in 
recognition of his distinguished services for three years 
as chairman of the tournament committee. This 
testimonial had been under wav for more than two 
years, the delay in presentation being due to the fact 
that Mr. Presbrey had positively declined to accept 
any testimonial as long as the war lasted. 

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The 1919 tournament brought out the usual large 
and enthusiastic gathering of Seniors, the interest in 
the occasion being augmented by the fact that the 
second international match between the United States 
and Canadian Seniors was to be contested this year 
at Apawamis during the Seniors’ Tournament week. 
This match was held on Thursday, September 11, 
between teams of fifteen men on a side, Nassau system 
scoring, and the Canadians were decisively defeated 
by a score of 21 to 7. 

William Clark of Misquamicut secured the 1919 
championship with a low gross score, 36 holes, of 169. 
Dr. William Jarvie of Bass Rocks had the low net of 
199-52-147. 

At the annual meeting of the association, held at 
the Apawamis Club on Wednesday evening, September 
10, 1919, and at which members of the Canadian Seniors’ 
team were present as guests, there were numerous ex- 
cellent speeches by Seniors from both sides of the border. 

President Kingsley expressed his wish to lay down 
the burdens of office and retire from the presidency. 
This wish was respected by the Seniors present and 
Mr. Frank Presbrey was chosen in his stead. The 
full ticket elected for 1919-20 was as follows: 

President — Frank Presbrey, New York. 

1st Vice-President — William O. Henderson, Columbus, O. 

2nd Vice-President — Robert W. Lesley, Philadelphia. 

Treasurer — Joseph A. Flynn, New York. 

Secretary — W. H. Hale, New York. 

Later at this meeting it was made my very pleasant 
duty to appoint a committee to draft a set of resolutions 
to be presented to Mr. Darwin P. Kingsley, the re- 
tiring President. 

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Because our own association was the parent Senior 
golfing organization of this country, because it was 
national in scope, and because of the necessity of 
differentiating in title between the United States 
Seniors and those of Canada, it was decided at a 
special meeting of the Board of Governors, held at 
the office of the President on November 12, 1919, 
to recommend incorporation under the name of the 
United States Seniors’ Golf Association. At a special 
meeting of the association called to ratify this action, 
which was held at Delmonico’s on December 3, 
1919, it was unanimously voted to incorporate. The 
President appointed Judge H. A. Gildersleeve and 
Mr. John W. Herbert as a committee on incorporation. 
Through the efforts of this committee the application 
for incorporation was put through, and the certificate 
was issued bv the Secretary of State of the State of 
New York, under date of May 14, 1920. 

Another important action taken at the special 
meeting of December 3rd was the vote to increase the 
membership limit to six hundred. This was a very 
popular move, as there was a waiting list approxi- 
mating one hundred and fifty, some of whom had 
been awaiting election for nearly two years. 

The third international match between the United 
States and Canadian Seniors took place on the Royal 
Ottawa Golf Club’s course at Ottawa, Canada, on 
Friday, September 10, 1920, the week before the 
annual Seniors’ Tournament at Apawamis. The 
visitors arrived in Ottawa on Thursday morning and 
were taken at once to the Chateau Laurier, where 
they were quartered as guests of the Canadian Seniors’ 
Golf Association. Getting into their golf togs they 

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were escorted to the Royal Ottawa Golf Club, where, 
after a special luncheon served on the club house 
veranda, they spent the afternoon familiarizing them- 
selves with the course over which the match was to 
be played on the following morning. 

In the evening at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club 
house the annual dinner of the Canadian Seniors’ 
Golf Association was held, and the United States 
Seniors’ players were made the special guests of honor. 
The dinner was a most enjoyable occasion and was 
carried through with great spirit. 

The match between the two teams, which took 
place on the following morning, was under lowering 
skies with frequent dashes of rain, but it was sharply 
contested and, while the Americans won for the second 
time, it was anybody’s match until the finish. A 
motion picture cameraman was • kept busy filming 
the interesting features of the contest, the film being 
shown at the United States tournament at Apawamis 
the following week. 

Under new regulations for the match the presidents 
of the two associations were to be de facto members of 
the respective teams and to lead off, playing on their 
handicaps. They were to he immediately followed 
by the team captains and then by the other contestants 
in the order of selection. The score of this match 
was 20 for the United States team and 15 for the 
Canadian. 

The presentation of the Duke of Devonshire’s cup 
to the winning team took place after the match on the 
eighteenth green, and the beautiful trophy was brought 
back to Apawamis for the second time. 

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Apropos of the second winning of the cup the fol- 
lowing incident will prove interesting. Shortly after 
the cup was first won by the Canadian Seniors the 
United States Seniors received from them a large 
and handsomely framed photograph of the trophy 
which was hung up in the Apawamis club house. 
One Senior looking at it and espying nearby one of the 
members of the unsuccessful team, asked the latter 
facetiously, “Is this all you got? Why didn’t you 
bring back the cup?’’ To which the team member 
merely replied, “Wait till next year.’’ 

Sure enough, next year, when President Baker 
of the Canadian Seniors displayed the cup itself at 
the annual dinner of the United States Seniors in the 
Apawamis club house, he said that while he fully 
expected to take it back with him, he had misgivings 
that the American Seniors would fall in love with it 
and determine to retain it themselves. Whatever 
the cause, the cup remained. 

The 1920 United States Seniors’ Tournament took 
place at Apawamis on September 14, 15, 16, and 17, 
with three hundred and sixtv-five entrants, a record 
number. A new champion came to the front in 
Hugh Halsell of Dallas, Texas, a member of the 
Sleepy Hollow Country Club, who turned in a low 
gross score, 36 holes, of 162. A. B. Colvin of Glens 
Falls with 192-46-146 had the low net, 36 holes. 

At the business meeting held after the dinner 
Justice Mahlon Pitney, as Chairman of the special 
committee appointed by me after the previous annual 
meeting to draft and present a suitable testimonial 
to the retiring president, Mr. Darwdn P. Kingsley, 
read the text of the testimonial and supplemented 

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this with some well-chosen remarks in appreciation 
of the distinguished services of Mr. Kingsley in es- 
tablishing the Seniors’ Golf Association upon a firm 
foundation. His remarks were liberally applauded 
and the testimonial, which was an elaborately en- 
grossed and splendidly bound folio, was greatly ad- 
mired. In accepting the testimonial Mr. Kingsley 
responded briefly and gracefully. 

As usual at these annual meetings and dinners 
some excellent speeches were made by prominent 
Seniors and their guests, among the speakers on this 
occasion being Mr. W. R. Baker, President of the 
Canadian Seniors; Mr. W. H. Conroy, President of the 
Apawamis Club; and Mr. N. M. Garland of the 
Engineers Country Club, Roslyn, L. I. 

The board of officers elected for 1920-21 wasasfollows: 

President — Frank Presbrey, New York. 

1st Vice President — William O. Henderson, Columbus, O. 

2 nd Vice-President — Robert W. Lesley, Philadelphia. 

Treasurer — Joseph A. Flynn, New York. 

Secretary — W. H. Hale, New York. 

Mr. F. J. Wessels retired at his own request as 
chairman of the Tournament Committee and was 
succeeded by Dwight L. Elmendorf, who had been 
an active and energetic member of this committee for 
several years. 

There were 363 entries to the Seniors’ Tournament 
in 1921, which took place on Sept. 13, 14, 15, and 16, 
only two less in number than the record entry of 365 
in 1920. Two hundred and sixteen players were 
scheduled for the first two days, and of this number 
212 started, which was a record number for one day’s 
play. The second two days brought 157 to the 

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starting tee, but the interest was in no degree lessened 
by reason of the fact that the International Team 
Match between the United States and Canadian 
Seniors took place this year at Apawamis on Thursday, 
Sept. 15 th, the Americans winning by a score of 26 
to 2. The contest was bv no means as one-sided as 
the score would seem to indicate, most of the matches 
being closely contested. The outstanding feature of 
this event was the defeat of Capt. George Lyon of the 
Canadian team by Mr. Charles D. Cooke of Areola, 
this being the first time the redoubtable Canadian 
champion has been forced to lower his colors. 

The champion for 1921 did not appear until almost 
the last minute of the fourth and last day of the 
tournament, Mr. Martin J. Condon, of the Memphis 
(Tenn.) Country Club, and formerly a member of 
Wykagyl, turning in a card of 79 for his second round 
of the course, and being in the next to the last pair to 
finish. His first round, On Thursday, was 82, making 
his 36 hole gross 161. But for the fact that he rimmed 
the cup on the fourteenth hole in his Friday’s round, 
and required another stroke to hole out, he would have 
equalled the Seniors’ record low gross of 160, made 
in 1911 by Mr. James D. Foot. Mr. Jonathan God- 
frey of Brooklawn had the best low net, 36 holes, of 
172-34-138. 

The sensational incident of this tournament was 
an “eagle” 2 on the eighteenth hole, made by Mr. 
Joseph M. Byrne of Deal, whose mashie shot of 150 
yards trickled up to the hole on the final green and 
dropped in. 

The annual meeting and dinner of the Association 
was held at the Apawamis Club, as usual, on Wednes- 

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day evening of the tournament week, and was at- 
tended by more than two hundred Seniors, and also 
by the Canadian team and other officers and members 
of the Canadian Association. At this meeting Mr. 
Frederick J. Wessels, former chairman of the tourna- 
ment committee, was presented with a superb silver 
set as a testimonial from the members of the Associa- 
tion for his five years of service upon this committee. 

The officers elected for 1921-22 were as follows: 

President — Frank Presbrey, New York. 

1st Pice-President — William O. Henderson, Columbus, O. 

2nd Pice-President — Robert W. Lesley, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Treasurer — Joseph A. Flynn, New York. 

Secretary — W. H. Hale, New York. 

Any history of the origin and organization of the 
Seniors’ Tournaments would be incomplete that did 
not give due credit to several prominent features in 
the practical management of these events. The suc- 
cess of these tournaments has been largely due to the 
skillful, experienced and thorough work of its tourna- 
ment committees. For many years before the Associa- 
tion was formed, the late Mr. James D. Foot was the 
efficient chairman of the tournament, and he was ably 
assisted by Mr. Findlay Douglass, Mr. H. S. Keeler 
and others. At the time of the formation of the 
Association Mr. Frank Presbrey, chairman, with Mr. 
George H. Barnes and Mr. T. H. Watkins, comprised 
the committee. Later Mr. Frederick J. Wessels and 
Mr. Winthrop Sargent succeeded Messrs. Barnes and 
Watkins on the committee. With Mr. Wessels as 
chairman his associates were Mr. Dwight L. Elmendorf 
and Mr. Solon C. Kelley, Mr. Elmendorf being made 
chairman of the committee for 1921, the other mem- 
bers being Mr. Kelley and Air. Charles D. Spalding. 

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The work of these committees has been well-nigh 
perfect, indeed it had to be so, for when there is a 
field of one hundred pairs of players to be started off 
between 8.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. there can be no delays 
anywhere. And there were none. It has been the 
rule rather than the exception, at these Seniors’ 
Tournaments, that, with a scheduled headway of 
four minutes between pairs of players, the starters 
continually kept well ahead of their schedule. 

The securing of a sufficient number of experienced 
caddies for such large fields of players was another 
problem that called for much thought, but which was 
finally solved most satisfactorily. 

Scoring was another feature of great importance 
as well as great intricacy, but has been developed 
to a remarkable degree of perfection by the well- 
known Apawamis professional, “Billie” Potts. Twice 
Potts has had to enlarge the Apawamis score board 
to accommodate the increasing Senior lists, and during 
the last three years it has been a mammoth affair 
some eight feet in height by twelve feet in length, 
this size being required for the twelve full-size sheets 
of cardboard needed to post the detailed scores for 
two days. An entirely new set of cards went up for 
the second two days, and a subsidiary score board was 
often necessary for the classification, the summarizing 
and the list of winners. 

Since 1915 Mr. Potts has had the assistance of 
Mr. W. H. Hale, the present Secretary of the Seniors, 
who introduced three years ago a counting machine as 
one of the imperatively needed appliances for quickly 
and accurately adding and checking the scores turned in. 

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The sterling quality of golf displayed by the 
Seniors during their many tournaments has been a 
matter of constant surprise to younger players of the 
game. Yet this is by no means the chief feature of 
these tournaments. The fraternal feeling that exists 
among this body of Seniors is most remarkable. Their 
sportsmanship is of a high order. They “play the 
game” as it should be played and they return each 
year to Apawamis to renew their old friendships, and 
to take part in rival competitions that keep their 
hearts and spirits young. We Seniors are not the 
only ones to appreciate our own sentiments in regard 
to these tournaments, for the golfing editor of the 
New York 7 'imes published, on February 5, 1917, the 
following: 

“To the golfers of the younger set a visit to 
Apawamis at the time of the annual Seniors’ Tour- 
nament would be a liberal education as well as a 
privilege. Gathered from all parts of the country 
and from all walks of life, the players in this tourna- 
ment demonstrate what golf may hold for the man 
who cherishes the spirit of youth even in the bones 
of age. It is much to be regretted that each player 
who takes up the game cannot undergo a novitiate 
at the hands of the Seniors’ Golf Association. In 
the lack of manner and the abundance of manners, 
in the good-fellowship that is found and the prej- 
udices that are lost, in the spirit of youth that 
tempers the wisdom of age, the Seniors’ Tourna- 
ment and the newly formed association may well 
serve to bring home the truth of the game to the 
thousands who play it over American courses. 

If the spirit that animates these older players in any 
way leavens the great mass of golfers, then what 
the game has done for Senior Golfers will be little 
in comparison with what Senior Golfers have done 
for the game.” 


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The future of the United States Seniors’ Golf 
Association looks bright indeed, but our ability to 
take in all the worthy Seniors who aspire to join our 
ranks presents a continually unsettled problem. The 
Association now has a membership of six hundred, 
which is the maximum number to be contemplated, 
because of the impossibility of caring for a greater 
number of players at the annual tournament. Twice 
already we have raised the membership limit and now, 
in December, 1921, only a little more than a year 
since we enlarged our membership to the present 
number and took in one hundred and fifty applicants, 
our Secretary informs me that he has received con- 
siderably over one hundred new applications for 
membership. 


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